Re: Adobe Digital Book Reader

  • From: "Dan Beaver" <dbeaver888@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 09:59:36 -0400

Hi,

I too looked into the accessible version of the digital editions tool and 
found some info that indicated they have been promising the accessible 
version for 2 years or more.  Doesn't seem very serious an effort on Adobe's 
part.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gary King
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 8:51 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Adobe Digital Book Reader

Ed,
I had a similar experience recently with Adobe Digital Editions when I tried
to read an ePub book from the Overdrive service.  Adobe Digital Editions was
the program they made available for download to read this format.  I had
heard that the program was not accessible, but I downloaded it anyway to see
if the situation had changed.  I got nothing usable from the program.

When I went to the Adobe web site and poked around a bit, I learned that
they were promising that version 2.0 of Adobe Digital Editions would be
accessible with the major screen readers.  They did not say when!

I went back to the Overdrive site and found that they had a free app for the
iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad that would read this protected format.  It did
work on my iPod Touch, but the book navigation was a little tricky,but  I
was able to read the book.

Gary King
w4wkz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marquette, Ed" <Ed.Marquette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 4:42 PM
Subject: Adobe Digital Book Reader


> All:
> Anyone had any experience with the Adobe Digital Book Reader.  This is
> apparently not the same thing as good old crapy Acrobat; it is much worse.
> Interestingly, it has a search box, and JAWS reads that; however, outside
> the text box, JAWS says page is empty.  Very strange.
> I've had JAWS say the document is empty, which usually means the PDF
> document is a scanned image.
> This appears to be a mixed document, which is to say that it must contain
> some kind of searchable text, but its display must be graphical somehow.
> Anyway, I needed this book today, and this was the only format (other than
> print).  Darned thing cost $83 too.
>
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